- A Master Class in Pruning – Phil Dudman May 2024
- Aromatherapy
- Big Scrub Rainforest Plants for Home Gardens
- Bromeliad
- Compost or Worm Wee Tea Recipe
- Cycad
- Feature Foliage
- Floristry
- Gardening Pearls of Wisdom June 2024
- Growing vegetables
- Health and Safety in the Garden – August 2024
- Indoor Plants
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- Native Animals
- Native Plants for Home Gardens on Alstonville Plateau
- Natural Dyeing
- Organic Workshop
- Palms
- Propagation
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show – 2024
- Roses for Sub-Tropical Areas – Part 1
- Soils
- Spray Your Garden The Natural Way
- Succulents
Denise Stobart and Aromatherapy … and essential oils
Denise is a member of the garden club and a practising aromatherapist.
To enhance her informative talk Denise brought along 8 separate essential oils for us to smell their fragrances. Only one of them, lavender, can be used in its concentrated form; all others must be added to carrier oils. As a rule of thumb, if you don't like the smell then don't use it was Denise's advice.
Her strong advice was buy only essential oils that are packaged with the plant's latin name
Denise outlined the history of essential oils, their use and the different processes used to capture essential oils from source plants
The 8 essential oils were lavender, geranium, orange, peppermint, frankincense, rosemary, roman camomile & ginger.
Denise donated several mixes of essential oils to the Trading table.
April 2017
Denise Stobart and Hazel Sowerby gave a combined presentation on Aromatherapy, repeating many of the messages that Denise had previously talked about.